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The air traffic control supervisor who apparently fell asleep on duty on the job at Reagan National Airport early Wednesday has been drug-tested by federal officials, a step usually reserved for controllers involved in plane crashes.
The controller, a veteran supervisor who was on duty alone, first said that the silence was the result of a stuck microphone, according to an audiotape of his radio transmissions.
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